/me mentally kicks himself for getting involved in this oh-so-entertaining thread
There clearly is a need here for a primer on how and why FAN rolls. My apologies in advance to the old-timers here who are well-versed in FAN philosophy – come on over to iirc and I’ll pour you some cider in recompense.
First off, let me say: This is our fault. It’s our fault that there are so many noobs here that are saying, “Oh the noez! Who is FAN and why are they attacking UoCR?” because FAN has kept to itself. In the recent past, we’ve had no interest in being involved with Planet Bob shenanigans – even its wars, which is saying something because FAN typically likes a good fight. That’s rule number 1 for the noobs: FAN plays CN to fight. CN without fighting is emo BS.
Rule #2 is that, with some very specific limitations, FAN nations can do whatever the heck they want. It’s what makes us so good at war – we just point the dogs in the general direction of the fox and let the dogs do their thing.
So here’s how the UoCR business went down. I’ll give you a one-time peek behind the curtain to understand our motivations here.
1) One of our junior members said, “Hey, there’s a nation called Soviet USA. He belongs to some alliance called Union of Communist Republics and it has X members, but can I attack him anyway?”
2) We check out their forum, and low and behold, these guys aren’t just players role-playing Commies in CN, they are actually RL Communists who believe that Communism is good for all! WTF?
3) mpol, as a member of Congress, puts up a vote to go to war against Soviet USA’s entire alliance. The only reason mpol beat me to it was because I was busy extracting the ice pick from my eyes after seeing the homage to Communism that is UoCR’s forum.
4) Vote passes unanimously in about 2 hours. Congress sends the bill to our Servers who look it over, say, “Hell yes!” and direct our military to plan our war.
5) We kick around end-game and surrender terms. $441M in reps was considered (94,000,000 people killed by Communism in the 20th Century times $4 and change -- what the material value of a human body is), but ultimately settle on the following:
An admission in UoCR’s OWF surrender announcement that RL Communism is bad period.
UoCR must place an order for Freedom Fries in their surrender announcement
Continuation of the current wars until they expire
‘cause the war itself is reward enough for us.
6) About 18 hours after our initial attack, UoCR leadership (RA and KI) approach us about surrendering. We give them our terms and have yet to receive an answer.
The rest, as they say, is history. History, for my UoCR friends, is the study of things that happened in the past.
So there was no “UoCR just finished a war and now is the time to attack” or “What are the implications for Planet Bob if we attack” concerns. Heck, we were barely aware that a decent-sized war had just ended. RL Commies came onto our radar screen, and we figured we’d be doing everyone here a favor by Darwin-Awarding these imbeciles who actually RL believe in the single most brutal, failed political system that ever cursed the Earth.
Frankly, I’m disappointed that the rest of Planet Bob has tolerated them for so long.
So ultimately, it was Soviet USA's fault.
